Urban Gardening
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23 Bushwick Avenue
Lived as temporary house guest; served as personal assistant to Geraldine Miller with a focus on domestic responsibiliites; co-designed a landscaped circular Mother Garden with paths and borders using onsite bricks, rocks and wood; established compost piles; enhanced soil restoration with extensive addition of leaf mold from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; designed a community biodiversity initiative; monitored home improvements; created flower beds around street trees.
information-habitat.net/projects/23-bush.htm
biodiversity,
document storage,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable home economics,
urban gardening,
women
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Brooklyn, NY
2001.04-2001.07
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801 Homestead Street
Undertook major renovation of a dilapidated 1877 frame house and established an organic garden on the 1/3 acre estate that had been created by purchasing two adjacent lots. Removed plaster and lathe interior walls; weather-proofed house with storm windows, insulation and caulking; re-painted interior of the house; installed new wiring, etc.
Removed large quantities of trash and debris from the garden - much of which was buried in the garden - and set about restoring the garden, adding compost heaps and collecting many, many bags of leaves each fall to create a large collection of leaf mold to enhance the condition of the garden.
information-habitat.net/projects/801-home.htm
biological diversity,
diet,
ecological design,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
home ownership,
recycling,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1984.12-1995.06
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609 Montpelier Street
Undertook comprehensive rehabilitation of a two-storey frame house and garden; intallation of wood stove, floor vents and a whole house fan, storm wndows, wall and ceiling insulation and electrical wiring; converted a former driveway into an organic vegetable garden; became the hub of the Chesapeake Energy Alliance and - after the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) - the home for a pro se intervention in the TMI Unit I Restart proceedings of the Nuclear Regulaory Commission.
information-habitat.net/projects/609-mont.htm
diet,
document storage,
energy,
home ownership,
law and the courts,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1974.06-1984.12
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3037 Guilford Avenue
Re-decorated 3037 Guilford Avenue, two-story brick row house in the Charles Village neighbrohood of Baltimore; established a small organic gardening plot, including a compost piles; planted fruit tree, vegetables and annual and perennial flowering plants; expanded ground floor front room with removal of a non load-bearing interior wall; hosted small communal living experiment with another married couple.
information-habitat.net/projects/3037-gui.htm
diet,
home ownership,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1967.09-1976.08
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